What is an integrated mind?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question (Q): What is an integrated mind?

Acharya Prashant (AP): The integrated individual. The title itself says education integration. The words integration or disintegration were mentioned by you not less than six or eight times, do you recall? Let’s begin with that. What is meant by integration and why should we say education and integration. Is the relationship between these two?

Listeners (L): Yes

AP: Please tell.

L: When you concentrate and then try to share your knowledge and try to improve the other person then you get integrated with the other person.

AP: In the very first paragraph the author talks of unspeakable sorrow. Unspeakable sorrow. What is this unspeakable sorrow? All sorrow, all suffering is the suffering of being divided. Let us look at ourselves or let us look at our students, and the very obvious truth of this will come to us. What does my student say? I wanted another department and I did not get it. I wanted an NIT or an IIT, I did not get it. The mind is divided between this and that, and simply put, this is this integration.

To be integrated is to be one, and to be disintegrated is to be divided. Not completely in, not completely…